Author: Independent Lubricant Manufacturers AssociationPublisher:
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Category : Lubrication and lubricants industry
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
ILMA, the First Fifty Years
Author: Independent Lubricant Manufacturers AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lubrication and lubricants industry
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The First Fifty Years of the Department of Geology of the University of Queensland
Author: Dorothy HillFIFTY YEARS OF BOSTON
Author: The National Union Catalog, 1952-1955 Imprints
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description
The Pulitzer Prize Plays
Author: Paul A. FirestonePublisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780879103552
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
"With this book, Paul Firestone, lifelong educator and theater aficionado, delivers one of the most comprehensive compendiums of essays on these vital works. Firestone's understanding of each play's substance is rich and impressive. His vast and ambitious examination takes into account many different elements-characters, plots, and symbolism, as well as the lives and psychology of the playwrights, the historical context in which the plays emerged, and their relevance on sociological, political, familial, psychological, and spiritual levels.".
Exposure
Author: Robert BilottPublisher: Atria Books
ISBN: 1501172824
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
“For Erin Brockovich fans, a David vs. Goliath tale with a twist” (The New York Times Book Review)—the incredible true story of the lawyer who spent two decades building a case against DuPont for its use of the hazardous chemical PFOA, uncovering the worst case of environmental contamination in history—affecting virtually every person on the planet—and the conspiracy that kept it a secret for sixty years. The story that inspired Dark Waters, the major motion picture from Focus Features starring Mark Ruffalo and Anne Hathaway, directed by Todd Haynes. 1998: Rob Bilott is a young lawyer specializing in helping big corporations stay on the right side of environmental laws and regulations. Then he gets a phone call from a West Virginia farmer named Earl Tennant, who is convinced the creek on his property is being poisoned by runoff from a neighboring DuPont landfill, causing his cattle and the surrounding wildlife to die in hideous ways. Earl hasn’t even been able to get a water sample tested by any state or federal regulatory agency or find a local lawyer willing to take the case. As soon as they hear the name DuPont—the area’s largest employer—they shut him down. Once Rob sees the thick, foamy water that bubbles into the creek, the gruesome effects it seems to have on livestock, and the disturbing frequency of cancer and other health problems in the area, he’s persuaded to fight against the type of corporation his firm routinely represents. After intense legal wrangling, Rob ultimately gains access to hundreds of thousands of pages of DuPont documents, some of them fifty years old, that reveal the company has been holding onto decades of studies proving the harmful effects of a chemical called PFOA, used in making Teflon. PFOA is often called a “forever chemical,” because once in the environment, it does not break down or degrade for millions of years, contaminating the planet forever. The case of one farmer soon spawns a class action suit on behalf of seventy thousand residents—and the shocking realization that virtually every person on the planet has been exposed to PFOA and carries the chemical in his or her blood. What emerges is a riveting legal drama “in the grand tradition of Jonathan Harr’s A Civil Action” (Booklist, starred review) about malice and manipulation, the failings of environmental regulation; and one lawyer’s twenty-year struggle to expose the truth about this previously unknown—and still unregulated—chemical that we all have inside us.
The Illustrated London News
Author: Gendered Citizenships
Author: K. CaldwellPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230101828
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Drawing on ethnographic research with underrepresented communities in the Caribbean, Europe, South America, and the United States, this wide-ranging anthology examines the gendered dimensions of citizenship experiences and uses them as a point of departure for rethinking contemporary practices of social inclusion and national belonging.
Currents and Undercurrents
Author: Kathryn L. McKayPublisher:
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Category : Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area (Wash.)
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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